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Lagos Safety Commission Trains 60 LASU Officials On Workplace Safety

 

The Lagos State Safety Commission has trained sixty officials of the Lagos State University, LASU on Safety in the workplace.

The one day training held at the University main campus, Ojo, themed Lagos State: Training and Injection of Safety, Health and Fire Marshals in Lagos State University Campuses, aimed towards ensuring healthy work environment.

In a remark, LASU Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Administration, Professor Adenike Boyo, stated that the training was aimed at ensuring a safe and healthy work environment.

“Our disposition to this training is a demonstration of the resolve by the University Management to provide and maintain an ambience safe, secured and conducive for staff, students and visitors of the University.

” It also shows the commitment of the University Management to implement all the recommendations contained in the Safety Audit report on the Babatunde Raji Fashola Senate Building of the University.

” I wish to reiterate that the University Management will continue to partner with the Lagos State Safety Commission for the safety and wellbeing of the University Community”. She said.

Earlier, the Univerisity Registrar, Mr Emmanuel Fanu, explained that participants in the training programme were selected from across all departments and divisions in the institution so that they can in turn train others.

Addressing the trainees, Director General of the Safety Commission, Mr Lanre Mojola took them through causes of accidents and hazards, ways to identify them and how to avoid them.

Mojola decorated some of the participants as Safety Ambassadors and charged them to lead the advocacy on Zero accidents and zero hazards

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“This programme is sensitization, training and advocacy seesion on imbibing decent safety culture within the academic environment, be specifics around Safety culture, fire and business continuity disaster management and the whole point os that we believe that in this environment, we can have zero accidents and these Safety Ambassadors will be the one at the forefront, building a better Safety culture within the university environment” said Mojola.

Trainers, including Mr Adeyinka Adebiyi, Ms Bolanle Adesan and Mr Oluwole Ojetokun, walked the attendees through Basic Safety and Health; Electrical Safety; as well as Fire Prevention and Management; and School Health and Safety.

Adesan explained that Safety and health education should cut across all cadres and positions, advising the participants to hold all they have learnt dearly.

“Safety is key, Safety is life, whatever we do, let’s take Safety serious, let’s not think Safety is a bother, it is better to be safe than sorry”

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